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I've read the article and found nothing to substantiate "without reading the code". But then, I suspect the article is AI slop. Take this: > Christopher Ehrli
by chrisjj 9mo ago
I've read the article and found nothing to substantiate "without reading the code".
But then, I suspect the article is AI slop. Take this:
> Christopher Ehrlich just did something that would have taken a team of engineers months. He pointed OpenAI’s 5.3-codex at the entire SimCity (1989) C codebase and let it run.
No, that wouldn't have taken engineers months.
> Four days later: the game works in the browser.
So someome used a (very slow) program to translate a program.
> No code reading.
What?? Osmosis, then?
- astlouis44 9mo agoThe article was written by the CEO of Ycombinator, funnily enough.
- chrisjj 9mo agoSeriously, what makes you think that? It really looks like parrot slop to me.
- skysanctuary 9mo agoIt's a bad title. I think he meant Christopher didn't read any of the original code himself. The AI certainly ingested it. Though, there is this part: "Ehrlich wrote a bridge that could call the original C code, then ran property-based tests asserting his TypeScript port performed identically." So, he must have had some kind of awareness of how the code worked.
- chrisjj 9mo ago> I think he meant Christopher didn't read any of the original code himself. The AI certainly ingested it. Human fed code he didn't read to a program. Not really news, is it?